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empeser
empeser
French
Verb
empeser
- to starch
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il empèse rather than *il empese. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of empeser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | empeser | avoir empesé | |||||
| gerund | en empesant | en ayant empesé | |||||
| present participle | empesant /ɑ̃p.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | empesé /ɑ̃p.ze/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empèses /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empesons /ɑ̃p.zɔ̃/ |
empesez /ɑ̃p.ze/ |
empèsent /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
| imperfect | empesais /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ |
empesais /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ |
empesait /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ |
empesions /ɑ̃.pə.zjɔ̃/ |
empesiez /ɑ̃.pə.zje/ |
empesaient /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | empesai /ɑ̃p.ze/ |
empesas /ɑ̃p.za/ |
empesa /ɑ̃p.za/ |
empesâmes /ɑ̃p.zam/ |
empesâtes /ɑ̃p.zat/ |
empesèrent /ɑ̃p.zɛʁ/ |
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| future | empèserai /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁe/ |
empèseras /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁa/ |
empèsera /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁa/ |
empèserons /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/ |
empèserez /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁe/ |
empèseront /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | empèserais /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
empèserais /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
empèserait /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
empèserions /ɑ̃.pɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empèseriez /ɑ̃.pɛ.zə.ʁje/ |
empèseraient /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empèses /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empesions /ɑ̃.pə.zjɔ̃/ |
empesiez /ɑ̃.pə.zje/ |
empèsent /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
| imperfect1 |
empesasse /ɑ̃p.zas/ |
empesasses /ɑ̃p.zas/ |
empesât /ɑ̃p.za/ |
empesassions /ɑ̃p.za.sjɔ̃/ |
empesassiez /ɑ̃p.za.sje/ |
empesassent /ɑ̃p.zas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
— | empesons /ɑ̃p.zɔ̃/ |
empesez /ɑ̃p.ze/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||